Yep I had landed in Japan on the 4th of Feb., my first time there. I get to the hotel and soon after that bio urge we all get hits me so I look for the bathroom. I pull open the door, step in and then .... I see this!
And THIS!
and finally THIS! Holy technology, you need a PHD to take a dump in Japan!
After attempting to read all that I said "screw it this hostage wants to be released, I haven't got time to digest all this!" So I set myself down on the bowl and ... water starts running. I jump up and look in the bowl and it stops, so I slowly sit down again and .... water starts running. WTF!? It seems all Japanese toilets run water into the bowl just from sitting on the seat.
Eventually a successful negotiation of that hostage release was accomplished. After using their paper, (note to self and others, bring some good TP with you) I stand up and look for how to flush the bowl. I half way expected it to sense the deposit and auto-flush, it didn't. So I'm looking on the arm rest to see if there's a flush button there, nope, nothing there makes it flush. I stand up take a step back pondering the enigma of this inscrutable Asian Porcelain God. Then finally my Jet Lagged brain recognizes it. It's way up to the right above the seat lid, looks to be coming out of the wall behind the bowl.
I step forward confident in my ability to flush that baby now! Kerwoooooooooooooooooooooooooshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hh!!!!!!!!!!! It's flushing and flushing and flushing continuously. I think it goes on for a minute but it seems like 10. I'm thinking did I push it too hard with my big American index finger? Finally as I'm about to call the hotel desk to report the toilet is broken it tops running water. If that thing didn't use 20 or more gallons of water to flush, I would be amazed to learn otherwise!
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Originally Posted by Full Otto
I remember my altitude chamber training, just loved the smell when we de-masked and the rapid decompression in the small room was a blast.
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